South of Dixie (1944)
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Universal's yearly quota of cheap, 60-minute musicals occasionally yielded such likeable diversions as South of Dixie. David Bruce stars as Danny, a popular composer of southern ballads. Striking while the iron is hot, Danny's partner Brains (Jerome Cowan) promotes a filmed biography of the southern-fried songsmith. Trouble is, Danny is a fraud-he was born in the North, with nary a relative below the Mason-Dixon line to his name. Anxiously, Brains "invents" a southern lineage for Danny, going so far as to hire a voice tutor named Dixie (Anne Gwynne) and to cook up a romance between the hero and the daughter (Ella Mae Morse) of Southern colonel Morgan (Samuel S. Hinds). Inevitably, South of Dixie features several black performers in stereotypical roles, including Louise Beavers and Mantan Moreland. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Anne Gwynne - Dixie
- Jerome Cowan - Brains
- Joe Sawyer - Ernest
- Eddie Acuff - Jay
- Oscar O'Shea - Col. Hatcher
- Pierre Watkin - Dean Williamson
- Edward Keane - Mr. Platt
- Ray Walker - Reporter
- Jack Mulhall - Photographer
- Billy Bevan - Announcer
- Rita Gould - Woman
- David Bruce - Danny
- Ella Mae Morse - Barbara Ann
- Samuel S. Hinds - Col. Morgan
- Marie Harmon - Annabelle
- Louise Beavers - Chloe
- Marie Blake - Ruby
- Mantan Moreland - Porter
- Eddie Bruce - Clerk
- Bobby Brooks Quartet
- Donald Kerr
- Joe Haworth - Reporter
- Director(s):
- Jean Yarbrough
- Writer(s):
- Clyde Bruckman
- Producer(s):
- Jean Yarbrough
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